In Brazil, Amazon voters paddle canoes to floating polls
In Brazil, Amazon voters paddle canoes to floating polls
By Raphael Alves (AFP) 2 hours ago
It's Sunday morning on Lake Catalao in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, where the reflection of a fisherman's silhouette glimmers on the water.
But this morning, he's not casting his nets. He's casting his ballot at a floating polling station that has been set up in his village so he can take part along with 142 million other Brazilians in voting in the sprawling South American country's national elections.
The fisherman, 33-year-old Antonio Lopes da Silva, lives with his wife and four children in one of 106 floating cabins at the edge of this lake in the municipality of Iranduba in the northern state of Amazonas.
He has to paddle 10 minutes from his house to his polling station at the Our Lady of Aparecida school, which literally floats in the middle of the lake.
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